Call for Papers for 5^th IIPPE Conference

16-18 September 2014
(University of Naples, Italy)

Alfredo Saad Filho (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Kean Birch (York University, Toronto, Canada)

The theme of the 5^th IIPPE Conference is “Scholarship, Policies, Conflicts and Alternatives” (seehttp://iippe.org/wp/). Neoliberalism occupies a central position within this field, and the IIPPE Neoliberalism Working Group will be organising a stream of papers for presentation at the Conference. Submissions are invited on and around the following areas:

• Neoliberal economic policies and policy alternatives.
• Global neoliberalism, international relations and policy alternatives.
• Social structures, social change, and modalities of political representation under neoliberalism.
• Neoliberalism, activism, social mobilisation and resistance.
• Transcending neoliberalism.

Submissions on other aspects of neoliberalism will also be considered.

Abstracts (500 words maximum) should be submitted to Alfredo Saad Filho (as59@soas.ac.uk) and Kean Birch (keanbirch@gmail.com ) by 1 April 2014.